Mr. Speaker, the justice minister talks about the 1971 reality. I would ask him to leap forward if he could to the 1995 reality.
He ignores the fact that Canada is changing and that in a generation British Columbia will have as many people in it as Quebec. He ignores the fact that the concerns of the west can no longer be ignored. If he does not know that, he should go out west and he would know that.
Why is the Prime Minister proposing veto provisions for central Canada when he must know that British Columbians will never approve of this package?